In what comes as a relief from Logjam, created by the Supreme Court order in December 2024, which ordered the occupancy certificate (OC) for acquiring service connections, the department has now decided to propose a cabinet to change only buildings built on land over 1200 SQ.
This basically means that all buildings built in places greater than 30×40 feet will have to take OC, from now on, which was not the case in Bengalur. After the Supreme Court, more than 1 lakh request for new power connection was settled in the Bescom area due to lack of OC. Representatives of the main minister and Minister of Development Bengaluru DK Shivakumar and Energy Minister KJ George said that the state government will soon introduce changes to solve the dead end.
“The problem was that in any of our management acts there is no clear exception to any OC buildings. However in practice, in practice, because useful service providers also insisted that our city local authorities do not issue OCS for all buildings, but insist to be amprendils. In all the laws to be there, so they are in all laws, so they are in all laws to be there, so they are in all laws to be there, so they are in all laws to be there, so they are in all laws to be there in all laws.
The city development department (UDD) and the Panchayat Raj department met with other participating parties of July 11, of which the records are available at Hindu. At the Bruhhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) meeting, he suggested that buildings built on land up to 1200 square feet (ground + 2 floors or strokes +3 floors) can be free from obtaining OC. The Panchayat Raj department also agreed with the same exception.
Nor the Act on City Corporations in Karnataka in 1976, nor the Act on Municipalities in Karnataka in 1964, has no provisions on liberation for any OC buildings. The meeting decided to propose changes to these laws to bring this change.
Meanwhile, Section 241 (7) of the Bengalur Administration Act says: “The government may announce the category of a building that will be exempt from obtaining the occupancy certificate”. The meeting decided to announce an exception for buildings built on land up to 1200 square feet. Rural and Panchayat Raj will also accept the same exception in its model building byelaws.
Published – 16 July 2025 17:40
